The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-12
THE IND1ANAroLls JOURNAL. TUESDAY. july Il. 1887.

than politics Il was the beau ideal Of my
earlier years to picture myself AZ . crey-haired
man. free from care. tending his garden with
pruning knife in hand
THE British Medical Journal says that num-
Der of babies have been poisoned by sucking the
green straps Of their s.peramb u1ators" An
analytical examination Of the straps showed the
presence of enough arsenic in them TO kill an
adult
GENERAL SHERMAN, having taken cottage at
Lake George for the season, will DO pleased to
read the statement OF correspondent there to
the effect that never since the place
place has there been such promise OF gay times
and pretty girls
THERE has been boom in the market price of
log cabins since the day of Davy Crockett Joa-
quin Miller is said to have sold his cabin in
Washington for So 267 He has now advanced
to the dignity of so-called 'castle" which he is
erecting near San Francisco.
BLANCHE, Tray and Sweetheart. of the South
ern press, still baying at Mr.. George w.
Cable for presuming to speak on Social equal
ity'' at the recent commencement at Wander.
blt University. Mr.. Cable at last accounts was
doing as well could be expected.
COLLECTOR JONAS, Of the port of New Orleans,
is in danger of total blindness. The injury to
his eyes was caused by q copy OF tho Congress
sional Record which his son playfully tossed to
him from across the It never pays to
take liberties with the Congressional Record.
Ar famous water-cure some old forms Of
cure are whey, buttermilk and strawberry.
Whey is prescribed for affections Of the chest,
buttermilk for certain diseases of the stomach,
and Strawberries to purify tho blood The
buttermilk and straw berries are favorite
remedies
AFTER many years. absence from this country,
the Rev. DR.. Abel Stevens, tho Methodist
historian. has arrived in California on his way
around the world. He happily reached there
just in time to congratulate his son, we'll
known journalist of Los Angeles, on his recent
marriage.
been placed in st. Georges Protesta mt Episcopal
Church, Astoria. Long Island, in memory of the
Rev. DR.. Robert w. Harris who died last win
ter after serving in the ministry fifty seven
years. the last thirty of which spent
rector of that church.
VICTOR HUGO did not know the amount of his
fortune until some friends. in 1884. inquired of
the othschilds. They discovered that he had
nearly 6, 600, 000f deposited with then and
tonished him with the fact. He was then get
ting yearly royalties from his works of 40, 000f.
So says the Paris Figaro.
THE popular tonic. Beef, Wine and Iron" is
made by the following formula Extract OF
beef, ounce; citrate of iron and ammonia.
ounce: orange flower water ounces; sherry, IA
ounces. Mix the beef and wine and stir we'll
Dissolve the iron in ounce Of hot water, and
add the other ingredients.
MISS JENNIE, daughter of Secretary Lamar is
to be married on the 21st instant to her cousin,
Mr.. W. H. Lamar, young attorney of Wash
iugton. The ceremony is to take place at the
old homestead OF Mrs. Secretary Lamar. at
Macon. Ga. Quite party, including the father
OF the bride .xpectant, will go from Washington
to be present at the marriage
Mrs. KENDALL, the illustrious British actress
has for some years been making $40, 900 year
81 began my career" she says, Fat three years
of age; now / am thirty-eight. I have known
bitter poverty and great trouble, but that is in
the past. At twenty I was married to the best
and handsomest man in the world. We have
nothing in this world that we have not bought
out of our own earnings. l never accepted
threepence worth from anyone
POPPY red, porcelain blue. royal blue-re-
spectively the palest and darkest tones of this
hue-and mauve will be the favorite tint Is at
watering places during the coming bathing sea-
son. Pink is quite dethroned IN favor of hello
trope, although the latter color fades directly in
the air and becomes shabby, brownish
hue Red resiets the air and sun best. but Gallic
doctors beginning to declare that the pre-
vailing fancy for such a bright color damages
the eyesight.
DAN R1oE, the veteran Snowman. has reached
Cincinnati with his Texas bride OF the contest
he had before winning his wife he says: 81 had
to fight three counties. Gonzales, Lavaca and
Favette People said, What, marry clown ~
and every species of invention and stories were
got up against me. It didn't make any diff
ference. I captured the prize. My wife is
tckled to death. She never travelled before
and everything is new to her" But her new
husband is quite old.
THE march of innovation in Boston is about
to overwhem Mother Harrington's famous coffee
house on Second street Governors, litterateurs
and men Of mark in many lines have long no b.
nobbed at her tables. John ii. Andrew. the
executive OF the war days, wont to sip his
Java here Banks. CASTOR Rice Butler, Henry
Wilson. James T. Fields, E. P. Whipple and
many Others have often called for the jocund
pumpkin pie in the dim, gas-lit recesses of this
historic restaurant The fact that the prices
were low and the napkins not always immacu-
late did not deter their patronage.